Whiting-pad



G. J. FRANKS.

WRITING PAD.

APPLICATION FILED sgPT. 21. 1911.

W a J m m 0 4 M J U 6 4 W GEORGE JOHN FRANKS, 0F ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA.

WRITING-PAD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 26, 1919.

Application filed September 21, 1917. Serial No. 192,554.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I GEORGE JOHN FRANKS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Alameda, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Writing- Pads, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in writing pads and has for its object to provide a pad with means whereby a complete record may be kept of each letter writ ten upon the letter sheets of the pad.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a letter pad with a plurality of detachable memorandum sheets and means whereby sheets may be kept from curling from constant handling of the pad.

With the above and other objects in view I have invented the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which The figure is a perspective view of a pad partly broken away and embracing my invention.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the following specification and drawing in which 1 indicates an ordinary writing pad embracing a number of letter sheets. To the inside rear cover 3 of the pad is mounted a plurality of memorandum sheets 4, four edges 5, 6, 7, and 8 of which are gummed in pad form to said cover 3 in order to prevent the accidental displacement of the sheets 4 or the curling of the edges thereof. The upper portion of the sheet 4 is provided with a calendar 9 and a space 10 for postal information. Sheet 4 has its larger portion 11 divided into longitudinal columns 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 with a plurality of transverse lines 17 for receiving written data in reference to letters written upon. the letter sheets of the pad. The said longitudinal columns are headed with the following inscriptions, respectively, Name and address, When received, Reply, When answered and Telephone number. These inscriptions are printed on the upper fixed portion of the sheet 4 and the ruled lines are on the larger portion 11 of the sheet which is separable from the sheet 4 by means of the marginal perforations 18 and 19 and 20 and the divisional perforated line 21. When the sheet 11 has been filled in with notes regarding the letters written on the pad 1, it may be re- Gopies of this patent may be obtained for of the various columns on sheet 11 may be changed to suit any particular purpose for which the pad is used, my invention being to provide in combination with a writing pad a memorandum sheet arranged in such a manner that the letters or writing on the sheets of the pad may be recorded for future reference.

Having now described my invention, that which I claim to be new and desire to procure by Letters Patent is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a writing pad comprising a plurality of superimposed letter sheets and a plurality of superimposed memorandum sheets arranged under the letter sheets; all of the said sheets corresponding in outline and all being joined together at one end of the pad, and each of the memorandum sheets being made up of a rectangular border portion extending along the four edges of the sheet and increased in area at the top of the sheet to receive data and a removable major central portion joined to the border portion by weakened lines that describe a rectangle.

2. In a writing pad, a plurality of superimposed sheets corresponding in outline and joined together at one end of the pad, each of the said sheets being made up of a border portion extending along the four edges of the sheet and an inner removable major portion joined to the border portion by weakened lines that describe a rectangle.

3. In a writing pad, a plurality of superimposed sheets corresponding in outline and joined together at one end of the pad; each of the said sheets being made up of a border portion extending along the four edges of the sheet and of increased area at the top of the sheet to receive data, and an inner removable major portion joined to the border portion by weakened lines that describe a rectangle.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE JOHN FRANKS.

Witnesses:

M. J. CAVANAUGH, PERCY Huron.

five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

